HTTP client timeouts not configurable across bindings
Timeouts, redirects, and proxy settings cannot be configured consistently across language bindings, and local Python drivers reject client config.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 14 July 2023 · last reported 2 September 2025
What's going wrong
Users of the Selenium browser automation project across Java, Python, Ruby and .NET report that HTTP timeouts, redirect limits and proxy settings cannot be configured the same way everywhere.
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